Laef Kucheran

One more BC thread. The NDP are going to spend a lot of time figuring out what went wrong. I think Eby never found his stride as premier, and the path to leadership was where things started to go wrong. Eby wasn't used to being the bad guy, but the disqualification of Appadurai did not go over well.

Looking like record-low voter turnout in B.C. tonight. With 97.3% of ballot boxes reporting, Elections B.C. reports a turnout of 46.63%.

Folks

looking at early voting and mail-in-voting data is a path to madness. i do not think it is *impossible* to see something meaningful in this data if you are an expert practitioner but it is very difficult and you are much more likely to see what you want to see (or what you fear)

I've read so many NDP press releases in the last couple days that I've started narrating my life like them. Laef Kucheran's Plan for Afternoon Cappuccino Puts Bedtime Commitment in Question, etc.

Just so long as we get a dramatic photo of him in the window on the phone like the @mikehager.bsky.social photo of Ken Sim from 2022, I'm happy

“It’s only fascism if they manipulate elections!” “It’s only fascism if they disappear people off the street!” “It’s only fascism if they take over the media!” “It’s only fascism if they jail their political opponents!” Is there even anything left?

Good to know bouba/kiki is true for image models too

Here's a handy way to learn about ALL candidates in tomorrow's Vancouver election PLUS 32 other BC cities -- you can quickly & easily scroll thru the candidates' bios in their own words This is a non-partisan 'labour of love' by Vancouver software developer @laef.ca votemate.org/bc2026/candi...

The Hard Fork guys tragically passed but it appears their ghosts have now possessed Ezra Klein

Pretty insane that, even with this being a snap election at the same time as municipal elections, Elections BC still managed seven days of voting

I will gloat for the rest of my life that I clocked Trump as a fascist in 2016.

Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners

I thought the point of being government is you know when all the snap elections are

"does this also apply to a combine soldier from half life 2" is my "AI" news bullshit test

this is truly the week of bc push alerts

Privately, every major party and politician in this province has happily tell me that they went overboard on prioritizing Twitter in the past and that it's not particularly helpful to their campaigns in the present. And publicly, they can't break their fixation on it. It is what it is.

(want to know my secret hot take? only journalists, politicians and operatives complain about elections. most people are not impacted by them beyond voting day. they aren't out campaigning or reporting. they are just living lives like normal. it isn't disruptive! except the signs)

Unfortunately the most legitimate One Weird Trick humanity has ever created is vaccines

Now in Gunmetal Grey!

This is a good example of what @ntusikov.bsky.social and I have been warning about for years: US tech companies are uniquely susceptible to extra-legal US government pressure (Google isn’t compelled to change Lake Ontario’s name.) Because of this, they represent a direct threat to Canadian autonomy.

no one tell the Trump administration that "canola" is an abbreviation

BC political news right now

Trump is the rare national leader who is categorically incapable of making deals. he literally can't stop himself from betraying every counterparty or just wildly changing his position out of nowhere after the treaty has been signed bsky.app/profile/mger...